Dear Ya´ll,
First of all, do you know how difficult it is to teach
people the importance of the Book of Mormon and commit them to read it and get
all excited about it and then not have one?? Like ¨I know this book can bless
your life, will you read it?¨ and they say ¨Yes, I really want to¨
and then you say ¨Great....we ran out so...just wait a week¨ We don´t
have any Books of Mormon. Book of Mormons...debate among yourselves. It´s so
difficult. We have so many new investigators and we can only teach the first
part of the restoration and then we´re like.. ¨so...¨
it´s difficult. We called the Elders several times and they
ran out too and don´t know when we´ll get more.
Last week we took 2 routas (remember what that is, right)
into the big part of town to go shopping at the nice store ´bravo.´ We bought a
TON of food and as we were leaving we realized we had made a huge mistake. We
forgot that we had to carry all of the food back to the routa, squish in with 5
other people, and then get out of that and carry all of the food to a different
routa, squish with 5 other people, and then get out and carry all of the food
to our house... We did it!! I was so proud of myself, I felt like Matt Meese in
the one Studio C where he wants to carry all of the groceries in 1 trip. I had
to carry most because my companion was trying to keep the eggs from breaking.
But we made it home, no eggs broken and everthing fine! Next time, we´re not going
to Bravo and we´re buying a lot less. We learned our lesson.
The best advice to all of my friends on missions now or
about to go on missions - (and if you´re not a missionary, apply as best you
can) - Get an investigator who is a baker. and teach them in their bakery. And
everytime you go, he will give you fresh, hot bread. Also, get a lot of
investigators that live near the bakery, so you can pass buy multiple times a
day and get more bread. Trust me, this is essencial
We went on exchanges this week! I got to go to Sister
Stephens area and it was the best because her apartment has hot water!!
Names. Okay, so we have 2 investigators that are twins
right? They look exactly the same. And their names are Jr. Jose and Jose Jr.
seriously.
My favorite investigator is named Bienvenido Feliz (Welcome
Happy). When we first met him, he kept talking in ¨we,¨ Like ¨if it is true, we
will get bauptized.¨ And my companion and I were a little confused, and thought
he probably just meant his family. But it turns out he was talking about his
church! He´s a pastor of some of other church but he´s so humble and willing to
learn and he´s reading and praying about the book of mormon and wants to bring
his whole congregation with him! We invited him to come to church and he said
¨okay, I´ll try to bring everyone.¨ my companion and I were shocked and
throughtout the week when we´d check up on him and ask if he was still planning
on coming to church he said, ¨well, I´m not sure if we´ll all be able to come,
but we´re in communication now and planning it. Do you think we´ll all be able
to fit? There´s 26 of us.¨ My companion and I were so excited and we´re like
¨Yes they´ll fit!! I´ll sit outside if I have to!¨ We were so excited on
sunday...And then it rained. And Dominicans are like Cats. They don´t like
getting wet. They won´t leave their house if it´s raining. Most of the members
don´t even coming to church on Sunday. So neither did Bienvenido and his
congregation. Hopefully next week.
My other favorite investigator is Hairoli. We were walking
in the rain a couple of weeks ago and this woman comes out of her house and
yells at us to come in and get out of the rain. My companion and I don´t mind
the rain, but oh well. We go inside and she offers us a nice drink and says
¨please share with me.¨ So we share the restoration and she was very receptive
and excited. And all of the lessons with her after that went really well. And
then on sunday, when not even most of the members come to church because of
rain, she came. She woke up Sunday morning and was sick, she couldn´t even
talk. And it was raining really hard. But she said ¨I can´t miss church again.¨
(she didn´t make it the first week we invited her). So she came to church. In
the rain, when she was sick, she brought her little brother and her 2 toddlers
too! Oh, and she lives pretty far from the church, and she´s pregnant, and, she
didn´t even have an umbrella. I was so proud of her. She´s getting bauptized in
a few weeks.
I was reminded of a Primary Song
1.
The wise man built his house upon the rock
The wise man built his house upon the rock,
The wise man built his house upon the rock,
And the rains came tumbling down.
2.
The rains came down and the floods came up,
The rains came down, and the floods came up,
The rains came down, and the floods came up,
And the house on the rock stood still.
3.
The foolish man built his house upon the sand
The foolish man built his house upon the sand,
The foolish man built his house upon the sand,
And the rains came tumbling down.
4.
The rains came down, and the floods came up,
The rains came down and the floods came up,
The rains came down, and the floods came up,
And the
house on the sand washed away
With
faith and sunshine,
Hermana
Pollard ☀
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